A few years ago (I'll decline to tell you exactly how many) I set a goal to run a marathon (yes, the full 26.2 miles) before I turned 30 years old. I had run several half-marathons, so the natural progression was to run the full 26.2. It was an ambitious goal based on pride and a desire for greatness. But training and running that marathon was life changing. The lessons learned pounding the pavement taught me a lot about life and who I am.
About two years after accomplishing this goal, I was met with another goal: foster parenting. I think that the beginning of my foster parent journey was much like the beginning of my marathon training. Truthfully, I had the desire to do something great and something hard. Something that everyday people just don't normally do.
Two years into the foster parenting journey, and I have begun to realize how similar foster parenting is to training for and running that marathon. The marathon, in a way, prepared me to be a foster parent.
It's for the crazy people. I'm just going to start with the obvious. People think runners are crazy. Why would anyone want to go out and run for hours and hours? Don't they know how much it hurts? Runners KNOW they are crazy and celebrate it! Being a foster parent is similar. There are definitely the stereotypical large families that drive a buss as their normal means of transportation (I know and love at least three of these families). But more than that, just being willing to be flexible in handling the seemingly unbelievable demands from social services, the chaos brought when entering the world of the children's biological families, and helping children from hard places through their difficult behaviors makes you kind of crazy.
It requires pure stubbornness. Sometimes on those long, hard runs when it is cold and windy, or hot and windy, you have to just keep going. It has to be a framework in your mind that you just aren't going to give up. For me, it felt like there were too many people watching to just quit, so I had to keep going no matter what. Foster care is a lot like that, too. There are stretches of the journey that are just plain difficult. Events occur that bring injury to you personally. It hurts to love a child and then lose them from your arms. Other times the process exploits your own weaknesses or past injuries. It would be really easy to give up, but the stakes are too high. It is too important that you don't quit.
It will require sacrifices because it is a lifestyle change. When you are training for a marathon it requires a lot of time and dedication. You have to eat foods that support your training needs, drink water and avoid food that will slow you down. You have to go to bed early enough so you can get up early, especially on long run days. It means spending less time with friends and family so you can go out and train. As a foster parent, I quickly learned how much my life was going to change. Groups that I enjoyed being a part of, even as a leader, I found I didn't have time for and the energy that I was investing into those activities was detracting from the energy I needed for my children. The friends that I began to spend a lot more time with were also foster parents. With children from hard places, it's just not easy to run out to eat or to have a lot of extra activities. Your lifestyle changes considerably because the child you are caring for has extra needs. Foster care is not just adding a child into the mix of what is already happening in your life. It requires a major shift to adjust for the needs that child and his/her family need.
Know your supports. While training for the marathon, I had another friend who was training as well. We often scheduled our runs together so that we could train for at least part of the morning together. Those miles were by far the easiest. I located pit stops on the trail to help motivate me, but also to meet my physical needs. I needed my family to help watch my child during long runs, and I needed professional help to treat my injuries. During the race, I was encouraged by the crowds at the beginning cheering everyone on, but the last six miles when everything hurt and I had depleted all of my resources, I was so grateful for my dad and sister who jumped in and ran with me, even in their flip flops. I really could not have done it without them. Likewise, in the foster care world, I need people who can give me a break, provide encouragement, and others who can come alongside me to cheer me on, offer support, or teach me new skills to make me a better parent. Sometimes, I need professional support. I have a foster care specialist and a caseworker, but sometimes foster parents also need therapeutic support, especially when parenting children with attachment disorders. The foster care journey is also impossible without a team of supports in place.
Take breaks/refreshment every time it is offered. A really important part of running is actually rest days. Even if those rest days are spent training other muscles, it is important to take days off from running. Not doing so will lead to injury, make you slower, and burn you out mentally as well. During the race, runners are advised to take water or sports drinks every time it is offered, whether you feel like you need it or not. Foster parents often feel guilty for taking breaks or receiving help from others. Compass provides a free night of respite, Foster Parent Night Out, once a month to its foster parents. This might be the only night I get to just be by myself without having to do things for other people. Using friends to babysit often gives you the strength that you need to just keep going. Taking breaks from your children actually makes you a better parent. Additionally, if you have friends or family who are willing to come help you clean, mow your lawn, do laundry or provide a meal, TAKE IT. This is their contribution to the hard work of foster care.
It requires training and constant learning. Running a marathon doesn't mean just going out one day and running 26.2 miles. You begin with slow, short runs and alternate with longer runs, hills and high intensity intervals. On days off from running, it is necessary to stretch and lift weights. While training for the marathon, I constantly read blogs from other runners and learned about how my body worked and what it needed to be more successful. Being a foster parent also requires training and constant learning. Before taking placements, you have to go through hours of classes. While you are parenting children from hard places, you should also be constantly learning about what each child needs and how you can care for them more effectively. I read blogs from other foster parents and professionals all the time. Constantly learning and becoming better is essential to being a good foster parent.
It will be painful. I trained through injuries to complete the marathon. I had shin splints and ankle pain. Your hamstrings and quads often hurt during training, and certainly during and after the race. Many runners lose toenails (and use it as a bragging right. Who isn't a real runner that hasn't lost a toenail?) Sometimes runners fall and get road rash or twist ankles, or any other sort of physical pain. Foster parenting usually doesn't cause muscle-skeletal issues, but it is very painful. Saying good bye to a child you have loved with your whole heart, one you have raised since birth or helped to work through abuse and neglect just hurts. It really, really feels like your heart is breaking, but there is no ice pack for your heart. Working with biological families in their struggles of sin and abuse and just not able to overcome those to get their children back home… that is excruciating. Watching a parent's rights be severed from their child is gut wrenching. Walking with a child through the extreme loss of their own family-by-blood hurts more than you would ever believe.
Quiet Humility. As I was training I talked a lot about running with my friends and on Facebook. I created my own hashtag, and I was really excited about it. I was also really proud of what I was trying to do. After the race, I really didn't have a lot to say about it. It took me a lot longer than I wanted it to, and people a lot older than me finished much sooner. Yeah, I did it, but I didn't feel like Rocky climbing the stairs when I was done. I was tired, and I was marked by the pain that the whole endeavor put on my body. More experienced foster parents have learned that foster parenting is really similar to that. At the beginning of my foster parent experience I was also really proud about what I was doing and I knew that it was important. I shared things on social media that others found encouraging in their journeys or even inspired them to become foster parents themselves. As time wore on, I experienced pain that couldn't be solved with a Facebook post. The journey got ugly and it felt more like a battlefield some days. Even though our family is working toward adoption, a beautiful thing that displays God's redemption in each of our own lives, I understand now more than ever before the pain that was endured on the cross so that we all could be adopted as children into God's family. Severing the parent's rights wasn't met by cheers and a party, it was met with deep sorrow and the dread of telling my son that he would say good bye to his parent. All of this leads you to quietness and a deep understanding of how unworthy and ill-equipped you really are.
It takes a lot longer than you think it will. I started training for the marathon about 9 months before it was scheduled. Honestly, that wasn't enough time. I could have been in better shape and I should have dealt with my injuries before I started. All of this meant that it would take me a total of six hours to run 26.2 miles. That is a very long time. The crowd had gone home, many of the water stations were shut down and it was much hotter than it had been at the beginning of the day. I was really hoping to run it in closer to 5 hours, but it just took longer. Everything about being a foster parent takes a long time. Training is long, licensing is long, the hours of waiting for a placement are long. The process of a case takes a very long time. It is not any one particular person's fault, but just the tragedy of the system at work. Molding children's behavior through their hurt and abuse also takes time. It is a very slow process.
It is worth it. Being able to say that I have ran a full marathon is totally worth it. According to some statistics, between .5 and 1% of the population have run a marathon. It is incredible to be a part of such a small percentage of people. Even on the worst days, I can look back and say, I did that. And that's pretty incredible. Being a foster parent is worth it on a whole other level. One thing is that I have a much bigger family than I would have otherwise. I have teen daughters (who are now in their 20s and have their own children) who love to reconnect and tell me about their lives. I am adding a son to my family. He is funny and loving and so forgiving. But more importantly I am giving him a place to belong. A place where he will always be safe and taken care of. Even on the hardest days when I feel like giving up, I remember that this journey is worth it because it makes an impact in the lives of others far beyond me.
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Fostering child is always like a marathon where you need 1st position what ever you facing difficulties during this period, it's not only about you but it's about someone's future who completely depending on you. Your responsibilities to help your foster child all as dreams come true.
You got me when you said that you have to go through hours of classes to make sure that you'll learn to effectively care for your foster children. My husband and I want to be foster parents. We don't have a child, and we want to share what we have with other children who are in need. I will make sure that we'll undergo training to become qualified foster parents.


As an IT Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team with extensive IT audit experience and a broad knowledge of the firm. You will be responsible for delivering a wide range of IT focussed assignments from the annual assurance plan, both risk based audits and consultancy activities.
You will enjoy a wide variety of work in terms of nature and scope, including reviews of IT governance and strategy, application controls, business continuity arrangements and of critical IT suppliers. As many of our reviews encompass both IT and operational aspects of the audit subject within their scope, you may also be involved in undertaking some operational audit activity, or working in collaboration with operational audit colleagues on some projects. You will also have the opportunity to engage with different clients from across all areas of the firm and with our internal audit colleagues at a global and network level, given the increasingly global nature of many of the firm's applications.
You will be based with the team in One Embankment Place. Some travel to other sites will be needed and occasional overnight stays away from home, but this is limited in comparison to a traditional client facing audit role. There is also scope for flexible working and working at home. Depending on your performance and team structure, there will also be future promotion opportunities within the team to Manager and beyond.
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Quetta (Staff Report): At least four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred when unknown assailants opened fire at their vehicle in Quetta on Wednesday.
As per details, the FC personnel were patrolling the area near Sariab road early morning when unknown assailants on a motorcycle opened fire at their vehicle, critically injuring all four inside the car. The security officials were moved to Civil Hospital where they breathed their last.
Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the spot as investigation into the incident went under way.
Police termed the incident as another act of targeted killing in the city.
Governor Balochistan Mohammad Achakzai condemned the incident and expressed condolences to the bereaved families.


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Frederick Piper (23 September 1902 – 22 September 1979) was an English actor of stage and screen who appeared in over 80 films and many television productions in a career spanning over 40 years. Piper studied drama under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Never a leading player, Piper was usually cast in minor, sometimes uncredited, parts although he also appeared in some more substantial supporting roles. Piper never aspired to star-status, but became a recognisable face on the British screen through the sheer volume of films in which he appeared. His credits include a number of films which are considered classics of British cinema, among them five 1930s Alfred Hitchcock films; he also appeared in many Ealing Studios productions, including some of the celebrated Ealing comedies.

Stage career

Born in London, England in September 1902, Piper worked as a tea merchant before starting his acting career on the stage in the 1920s, playing in London productions and also touring as far afield as Canada. He continued to appear in theatrical productions in the West End alongside his screen roles. These included appearances in the original runs of Barré Lyndon's The Man in Half Moon Street, Vernon Sylvaine's Nap Hand, N.C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea, Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry and Home at Seven and The White Carnation by R.C. Sheriff.

Film career

His first film appearance came in the 1933 production The Good Companions.

An unassuming man with no trappings of ambition or conceit, Piper rapidly earned a reputation as a reliable, congenial presence on set and became a first choice for directors with smaller roles to cast, accumulating screen credits at the rate of up to six a year through to the 1960s. He appeared as an extra in Hitchcock's 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much (credited as "Policeman with Rifle"), and the following year was cast again by Hitchcock in the role of the milkman in the famous scene with Robert Donat in The 39 Steps. Piper was only on screen for seconds, but the iconic nature of the scene ultimately made this probably his most famous film appearance.

Later minor roles for Hitchcock were Sabotage (1936 – as the doomed bus conductor), Young and Innocent (1937) and Jamaica Inn (1939 – as Charles Laughton's agent).

Piper's services were always in demand, and he is said to have once joked that he had cornered the market in unnamed police officers and barmen. From the late 1930s he became associated with Ealing Studios, appearing in dozens of their productions, from cheaply shot programmers through to the company's most prestigious films such as In Which We Serve (1942). Most of Piper's roles were fleeting and his name rarely appeared in promotional material, but there was an occasional more substantial part in films such as Nine Men (1943), The October Man (1947) and Hunted (1952). Other films include Hue and Cry, Passport to Pimlico (1949) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951).

From the early 1960s film work began to dry up, but Piper continued to find work in television, a medium on which he had first appeared as early as 1938 in a production of J. B. Priestley's play Laburnum Grove for the fledgling BBC. His TV credits during the 1960s included popular series such as Danger Man, Dixon of Dock Green and cult favourite The Prisoner. Piper's last credit however was in a film, a minor role in the 1971 production Burke & Hare.

Piper died in London on 22 September 1979, one day short of his 77th birthday.

Filmography

1933: The Good Companions - Ted Ogelthorpe
1934: Red Ensign - Mr. McWilliams (uncredited)
1934: The Man Who Knew Too Much - Policeman with Rifle (uncredited)
1935: The 39 Steps - The Milkman (uncredited)
1935: The Guv'nor - Gendarme (uncredited)
1936: Fame - Press Representative
1936: Everything Is Thunder - Policeman Denker
1936: Crown v. Stevens - Arthur Stevens
1936: Where There's a Will - Joe, Detective Taking Fingerprints (uncredited)
1936: Sabotage - Bus Conductor (uncredited)
1936: Jack of All Trades - Jimmy (Employment Clerk) (uncredited)
1937: Feather Your Nest - Mr. Green - The Recording Engineer (uncredited)
1937: Farewell Again - Minor Role (uncredited)
1937: Non-Stop New York - Barman (uncredited)
1937: Oh, Mr Porter! - Mr. Leadbetter - Railway Official (uncredited)
1937: Young and Innocent - Minor Role (uncredited)
1938: Climbing High - Official in Asylum Car (uncredited)
1938: They Drive by Night - Bartender (uncredited)
1939: Jamaica Inn - Davis - Sir Humphrey's Agent
1939: The Four Just Men - Pickpocket (uncredited)
1941: East of Piccadilly - Ginger Harris
1941: 49th Parallel - David
1942: The Big Blockade - Malta official (uncredited)
1942: In Which We Serve - Edgecombe
1943: Nine Men - Banger Hill
1943: The Bells Go Down - Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1943: San Demetrio London - Boatswain W.E. Fletcher
1944: It Happened One Sunday - (uncredited)
1944: Champagne Charlie - Learoyd
1944: Fiddlers Three - Auctioneer
1944: The Return of the Vikings - Sgt. Fred Johnson
1945: Johnny Frenchman - Zacky Penrose
1945: Pink String and Sealing Wax - Dr. Pepper
1947: Hue and Cry - Mr. Kirby
1947: The Loves of Joanna Godden - Isaac Turk
1947: The October Man - Det. Insp. Godby
1947: Master of Bankdam - Ben Pickersgill
1947: It Always Rains on Sunday - Det. Sergt. Leech
1948: Escape - Brownie - convict
1948: Penny and the Pownall Case - Policeman
1948: My Brother's Keeper - Camp Caretaker
1948: To the Public Danger (Short) - Labourer
1948: Fly Away Peter - Mr. Hapgood
1948: Look Before You Love - Miller
1949: The History of Mr. Polly - Mr. Wintershed (uncredited)
1949: Vote for Huggett - Mr. Bentley
1949: Passport to Pimlico - Garland
1949: It's Not Cricket - Yokel
1949: Don't Ever Leave Me - Max Marshall
1950: The Blue Lamp - Alf Lewis
1951: The Lavender Hill Mob - Cafe Owner (uncredited)
1952: Hunted - Mr. Sykes
1952: Home at Seven - Mr. Petherbridge
1952: Brandy for the Parson - Customs Inspector
1952: Escape Route - Inspector Reid
1953: Cosh Boy - Mr. Easter (uncredited)
1953: Deadly Nightshade - Mr. Pritchard
1954: Devil on Horseback - Miner
1954: Conflict of Wings - Joe Bates
1954: The Rainbow Jacket - Lukey
1954: Lease of Life - The Jeweller
1955: Doctor at Sea - Sandyman
1955: Value for Money - Broadbent Snr. in photograph (uncredited)
1956: The Man in the Road - Medwood Inspector Hayman
1957: The Passionate Stranger - Mr. Poldy
1957: Suspended Alibi - Mr. Beamster
1957: Doctor at Large - Ernest (uncredited)
1957: Second Fiddle - Potter
1957: The Birthday Present - Careers Officer
1957: Barnacle Bill - Barman
1958: Dunkirk - Small Boat Owner (uncredited)
1959: Violent Moment - Jenkins
1960: A Touch of Larceny - Hall Porter (uncredited)
1960: Evidence in Concrete - Hall Porter (uncredited)
1960: The Day They Robbed the Bank of England - Policeman (uncredited)
1960: Dead Lucky - Harvey Walters
1961: Very Important Person - 2nd Scientist in Corridor
1961: The Monster of Highgate Ponds - Sam
1961: The Frightened City - Ogle
1961: What a Carve Up! - Hearse Driver
1961: Return of a Stranger - Fred
1962: Only Two Can Play - Mr. Davies
1962: Reach for Glory - Policeman
1962: The Piper's Tune - Gonzales
1963: Ricochet - Siddall
1964: Becket - Monk (uncredited)
1965: One Way Pendulum - Usher / Office Clerk
1965: Catacombs - Police Inspector Merkot
1965: He Who Rides a Tiger - Mr. Steed
1971: Burke & Hare - Lodger (final film role)

References

External links

Frederick Piper page at Alfred Hitchcock Wiki

1902 births
1979 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
Male actors from London
20th-century English male actors

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TPN Names Industry Veteran as New Chief Strategy Officer
Cheryl Policastro to lead strategic vision of agency as commerce continues to evolve
DALLAS, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TPN, the creative commerce agency, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Cheryl Policastro to Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), effective immediately. Policastro, who brings vast retail, brand and analytics expertise, will continue to lead the strategy and insights discipline at TPN to advance the agency's overall vision while also focusing on forward-looking opportunities for the company and its client partners. Her appointment to CSO bolsters the company's already predominantly female-led C-Suite and furthers TPN's commitment to the advancement of women.
Cheryl Policastro
Policastro joined TPN in 2016 as Vice President, Planning & Perspectives, focused on the Bank of America client. She was promoted to Managing Director, Head of Strategy & Insights in 2018. In that role, she advanced the focus on talent development, implemented the use of new data sources for cultivating insight and championed new approaches for creating better moments of connection with consumers and shoppers. More recently, she oversaw the strategy and insights team during one of its most critical times, helping clients to navigate the unchartered retail experience and rapidly changing consumer behaviors that resulted from the global pandemic.
"TPN is all about creating connected customer experiences for the world's most iconic brands, and Cheryl's expertise in analytics and insights, brand management and shopper marketing has helped to deliver on that promise for our client partners," said Sharon Love, TPN Chief Executive Officer. "She led the strategic charge as COVID-19 drastically altered the retail landscape, navigating what it meant for TPN and our client partners. Her steadfast leadership has allowed our team to be proactive and adaptive during a time of great change, and she works and leads with empathy, respect and drive, all which are core to our TPN Soul."
As CSO, Policastro will continue to elevate the company's approach, resources and agile capabilities to ensure the team can create and connect seamless brand experiences that evolve as the marketplace evolves. She will collaborate with the leadership team to establish priorities when it comes to TPN's strategic vision and will work across functions to implement and execute on those strategies, balancing speed with quality. Policastro will also partner with TPN's growth team to identify ways to build and expand upon the company's business and offerings.
"TPN has always been about making the buy happen, but how we do that during this transformational time requires innovative thinking, ever-evolving skillsets and an enhanced creative, collaborative approach," said Policastro. "As CSO, I will focus on putting in place the right processes and practices for proactive adaption in this dynamic environment. It has never been more important to operate from a place of empathy, using data to stay agile and focused, and employing a forward-thinking view of how people live and interact with brands. We will continue to elevate our human approach to inspire TPN associates across functions and to help design innovative experiences that deliver results."
Policastro's career has spanned across numerous industry leaders, beginning with Liz Claiborne in 1989 and holding positions at L'Oréal, Phillips Lighting and Novartis Consumer Health. She has worked in beauty, apparel, OTC pharmaceuticals, financial services, lighting and home care. In 2016, Policastro was named the Shopper Marketing Gold Effie Award Winner from Effie Worldwide and was a Women of Excellent Honoree from the Path to Purchase Institute.
For more information on TPN, please visit www.tpnretail.com.
About TPN
TPN is the creative commerce agency that exists to Make the Buy Happen for some of the most iconic retailer, technology and CPG brands in the world. We specialize in all things commerce—leveraging the agency's core practice areas of Digital Commerce, Brand, Retailer and Shopper—to create connected experiences that drive sales and build brand commitment. TPN is a part of Omnicom Commerce Group. The agency has nine offices across the U.S. and in the U.K. and is celebrating more than three decades of delivering creativity and results.
About Omnicom Commerce Group
Omnicom Commerce Group (OCG) is an unrivalled community of commerce experts working with brands and retailers to offer best in class consultancy, creativity and capability focused on driving increased conversion and transaction. OCG's priority is to address the need for innovative multi-channel commerce expertise in the rapidly evolving world of retailing and shopping and at our core are four individual award-winning commerce agencies – Haygarth, The Integer Group, TPN and TracyLocke – employing over 2,500 people across 19 markets.
About Omnicom Group Inc.
Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 70 countries.
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I feel privileged to be Facebook Friends with John Henderson, a member of the "anti-Emergent" Facebook Group Concerned Nazarenes. This Facebook Group is attempting to confront and warn members primarily of The Church of the Nazarene denomination.
I, John, and many others are concerned about the doctrinal falling away of many evangelical churches and entire evangelical denominations. Most of these churches are falling away from biblically sound doctrine into the postmodern heresies of Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, Richard Foster, Dan Kimball, Leonard Sweet, etc. etc.
Interestingly, all of the above individuals have spoken and/or taught at the heretical George Fox University and/or George Fox Evangelical Seminary, schools in the Evangelical Friends Church International (EFCI) denomination. The EFCI was once (relatively) biblically sound. But, in recent decades, all the Regions of the EFCI (including the once very biblically sound, Wesleyan Holiness EFC-ER) have begun trending quickly into postmodern "progressive evangelical" apostasy.
By the way, John – like myself – is Wesleyan Holiness in doctrine. We hold to the Wesleyan-Arminian position that a born again Christian can turn his or her back on God, walking away into apostasy and "losing" his or her salvation. Technically, we believe in "conditional eternal security".
So why exactly is the EFCI (and many other evangelical denominations) falling away? There are many factors I'm sure – factors which I will not attempt to enumerate here. But I did find the following post by my friend John Henderson very pertinent. Click here for the original source of this post. Note: I am inserting comments [in brackets] and emphasizing certain points by bolding.
This is one of those things where I would welcome, would embrace, having someone tell me I was wrong and showing me how so. It has to do when a person or a group has gone so far in the wrong direction, making wrong choices, and ignoring and neglecting God that they will never return to their better days outside of a divine miracle of intervention.
It happened first in the Garden of Eden. God made it clear to Adam and Eve what the limits were and what would happen if they went beyond them. They went past them and, in the day they sinned, they died spiritually on the spot and physically a few years later. Not only were those the consequences to them but they brought sin and damnation upon all of their descendants that only the Cross of Christ could overcome.
One might argue that God's creation was perfect and it was impossible for man to undo what God had done. That is a good argument but it was not what happened. Salvation is perfect but man can still trample the perfect redemption.
That is how it is. There is a point where a person can go beyond the possibility of repentance—not because God is powerless but because his or her conscience is so seared by unbelief and rebellion that they cannot come to repentance. Someone has likened it to no longer hearing God's call because the heart is so filled with animosity to the things of God and the attractions of the world that His call is drowned out by the din of those things. The call has not diminished. The hearing has ignored it so long that it is as though there is no call.
We have a grandfather clock in our hallway. It chimes the Westminster chimes every 15 minutes. Frankly, I do not notice them very often because I am accustomed to ignoring them. A visitor sleeping in a nearby room will often remind me of them. I try to remember to silence the chimes when we have overnight guests.
For this reason, I think a backslider who once followed Christ faithfully is less likely to return than would be a reprobate who has never received Christ. I think of the man who wrote that great song, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," who apparently never made it back. There are statics [sic] that say younger people are more likely to receive Christ than are older people. I often wonder if I would have ever turned to Christ had I put it off at the age of 15 until a later time; had I decided to taste of the world a bit before considering Christ.
There are many sad stories of people who put off salvation so long until all opportunities are gone. I do not like to hear of them but they are out there. Many of them I knew personally.
That same thing is true of once-great churches. I have yet to learn of a backslidden church or denomination that ever returned to its original level of spiritual life, activity, and influence after having started down the road of compromise. The slide was always gradual and hardly noticeable in the beginning. After a while, people started to notice something was wrong and eventually there were those who began to warn about it. There were occasional turnabouts, but not many and not often. Once the fatal drift took hold, it was too late. The cancer of sin had eaten away too much for there to be a recovery. If there ever was to be a cure, it had to be divine, but usually God had been so excluded that He was no longer considered that relevant and His call was no longer being heard.
The good news is that it does not have to turn out like that. There is still that clarion call and most can still hear it. Some will turn to Christ who seemed beyond the call.
I was told that when news got out that I had been saved, there were some who found it unbelievable about me. One person reportedly expressed such disbelief as to say: "Not him! Not that Henderson boy! Anybody but him could be saved!" I am glad that the Holy Spirit thought differently. God may have had to reach a little farther for me but He did. The stain of sin may have penetrated deeply even at my young age, but the Blood of Jesus went deeper than the stain had gone.
I have often thought that my own point of no return was very near then. An accident that should have been fatal convinced me of that. I had come to Christ shortly before the accident—maybe a week, two at the most—and believe I would have perished in the accident if I had put off salvation. I broke my neck in three places in a diving accident and walked away with no permanent damage of any sort.
Genuine revival is still possible. Maybe it won't look like we used to know or expect, but it can be every bit as real and far-reaching as ever. As long as the Holy Spirit is still with and in us, everything pertaining to the preaching of the gospel is still just as possible as it was in the beginning. That will not change or diminish until Jesus comes again.
Back in 2010, I happened to chance across the Concerned Nazarenes Facebook Group. It was through this Group that I met Concerned Nazarene Manny Silva. And it was not long before we found something in common – Manny had recently attended a local seminar here in Ohio, led by counter-Emergent speaker Eric Barger. Small world!
I am reposting a blog by Manny, in which he recounts Eric Barger's seminar. Click here for the original posting. I have emphasized certain points by bolding, and inserted comments in [brackets].
1 Timothy 1:18-20 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 19 having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
By tonight, I will have returned from Canton, Ohio, where Eric Barger of Take A Stand Ministries, spent two days at Grace Brethren Church. Eric is a Christian apologist who has been traveling all around the country for over 27 years now, warning the body of Christ of false movements, such as the New Age, the emergent church, and many more. On Saturday, he spoke in the morning on the dangers of the emerging church, and in the afternoon session, the topic was about how the popular novel, The Shack, is deceiving so many Christians today, even though it is a book filled with heresies and blasphemous doctrine. On Sunday, he preached in the morning on the truth and reliability of the Bible, and finished in the evening with a talk on the "real Jesus vs. the counterfeits." Eric is a true soldier in the fight for the true gospel. Eric spent three days with us at the Nazarene General Assembly last June, helping Concerned Nazarenes to expose the heresies being introduced to the Nazarene denomination by way of the emergent church. Please pray for him and his ministry, as Christians who do what he does are constantly under vicious attack by the enemy from within. I am hoping that he can soon be invited by someone to speak in New England, where he has never spoken yet.
There were several more reasons to come to Ohio. In the past two years, I have found many new brothers and sisters in Christ who are true Christian soldiers, while I was undertaking whatever efforts I could to fight false teachings in the church. And it seems that for every friend I have lost because of standing for the truth, I have gained at least one or two more. My list is long, but every single person who has joined me in this fight, via emails and the phone, has been a blessing and an encouragement, and in turn, I have also been able to help some of them as well, and I thank God for that, and nothing else.
A few of these soldiers is a small group of men in Canton, Ohio, who helped organize Eric's seminar. I met Aaron Wright about a year or so ago via email, and along with his father Troy, and Aaron's brother, Adam, they have a ministry called Foundations Research Group in the Northern Ohio area. When Aaron and his family encountered false teachings of the emergent church in their former church, they did not close their eyes to it and pretend it did not exist. They did not say, oh well, we'll just have to live with it. No, they boldly confronted the purveyors of false teaching and tried to show them the truth of God's word. The end result was that they made the decision to leave, rather than stick around and tolerate false teaching.
Their faithfulness has been rewarded with a ministry that is now helping Christians at their new church and in the community to equip themselves with knowledge of the emergent church, and at the same time, equipping and reinforcing others with a love for the scriptures, which is the best way to combat false teaching. Grace Brethren Church, led by Pastor Joe Cosentino, is a shining light in this town where there does not seem to be much light, or much of a desire to fight false doctrines. If you live in the Northern Ohio area, and are looking for a strong, Bible believing church, perhaps you should pay a visit to Grace Brethren. These kinds of churches are becoming rare in the midst of all this apostasy.
And so God blessed the faithfulness of Aaron and his family, and led them to a solid Bible believing, Bible preaching church whose pastor and leadership will not put up with the nonsense of emergent heresy or any other gospel except the true gospel of Jesus Christ. So one of the reasons I went to Canton was to finally meet Aaron and his family, who are truly another new addition to my eternal family, the family of God. We have shared information over the past year and helped each other with our ministries, and they have already made a big impact in their community and church.
But there were other soldiers that I just knew I had to meet when I came to Ohio. There was Becky, her husband and young daughter, who came to the seminar. I had met Becky over the internet as she was also finding herself and her family being thrown into turmoil, and again, the usual suspects were the purveyors of emergent church heresy. Their eyes were opened to the truth, and they had to walk away from their church as well.
Then there was Angie, and her friend Wendy. These ladies are true soldiers as well, and for staying true to God, have also paid a price for it. The tenacity and the determination of these two women, is an inspiration to me. They will not be moved, they will not be pushed around or bullied by any false teacher. Not even by the high-minded intellectuals with multiple PHds, nor by the smooth words of deceived pastors or anyone else. They just want to faithfully compare and contrast everything they hear with the scriptures, and like the Bereans, prove that what they hear is faithful to the word of God. They are solid sisters in Christ, and I am glad I got to finally see them personally.
There was also my good friend and brother in the Lord, Tim Wirth and his wife Donna, and I thank God for their friendship. Tim started the Concerned Nazarenes website a few years ago, and was instrumental in helping get the DVD put together about the emerging church. He was the first person that I actually made contact with when I first started stepping into the emergent mess, and has been a trustworthy friend who has given me solid advice, friendship, and encouragement. Tim is also not well liked by a lot of emergents, which to me is a badge of honor for him, because he has a knack for exposing their false ideology, just by using the sharp-edged sword of God's word against them. I value his friendship; and the impact he has made in this battle as a missionary to the Nazarene denomination is immeasureable, and only God knows. He and Donna are true and courageous soldiers in the fight against the apostasy of this age.
Finally, the only regret that I had was that there at least a few other soldiers from the Ohio area who could not make it to the seminar. There was Brenda, who I have known also since the past year and a half. She and her family chose to leave a Nazarene church because of emergent ideology, rather than stay and tolerate false teaching. She has been a source of encouragement and advice and a real sister in the Lord. And Beverly Turner could not make it this time, but I had hoped to see her as well. She is a very brave Christian lady and evangelist who is not afraid to speak the truth about what has poisoned our denomination. And then Rick Headley is also in Ohio, but I was not able to see him this time. But he also has been an example of standing for God first, above anything else, including his own denomination. He would not compromise, and like Brenda and Beverly, is a true soldier in this battle as well. Finally, I thank God for a wife who has been behind me all the way, put up with my long hours of writing on some nights, was okay with me going on this trip, and who has also refused to compromise in any way her faith in Christ. She knows the price that she has paid, but she would not change her mind if she could. Her support has made this job I am doing a lot easier to do. She is a soldier in this battle.
Folks, there are many more soldiers in this battle. I only mention these friends now because of the Ohio connection and my trip there to see them. There are so many more around this country and even around the world, who I have met, who are standing up for the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Someday, I will write about many more of them (with permission) and tell you how they have chosen to stand for the truth, and how they have blessed my life with their example. This is why I call them soldiers. A true soldier of Jesus Christ is someone who refuses to sit quietly on the sidelines while multitudes of young people and adults walk down the wide path of destruction towards hell, following a different Jesus. And it does not take too many requirements to be a "true soldier": just be faithful to Jesus Christ- completely faithful; and trust only in the word of God that is revealed in the Holy Bible. It does not mean you have to write a blog like I do; it does not mean that you have to be a preacher or evangelist; or that you have to have a ministry like the one Aaron and his family has. No, all it means is that you are willing to stand up for the truth, with whatever gifts God has given you, and be faithful to Jesus Christ and defend the gospel once for all delivered to the saints.
You see, if you had not noticed, there is a great apostasy spreading throughout the Christian world, dressed in the robes of a false Jesus. It does not matter what denomination: Nazarene, Brethren, Baptist, Southern Baptist, Presbyterian, Mennonite, Salvation Army, Calvary Chapel, you name it.
It is here, it is deadly, and it is leading countless people down the road to hell with a false gospel, with another Jesus which is not of the Bible. Don't you see it yet? And if you have seen it, what are you doing? Are you going to be walking through the narrow gate, or have you been diverted to the wide path?
Are you willing to stand for the truth… no matter what the cost, and be a true soldier for Christ, like these friends decided to do?
2 Tim 4: 1-5 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
* Note to all emergents and New Agers and other false movements reading this: we will not let up in our battle for the truth.
I have posted many blogs covering occultish Spiritual Formation (specifically contemplative spirituality) and heretical Emerging/ Emergent teachings. A number of Wesleyan Holiness denominations are increasingly teaching these heresies.
I am working on adding stats for each member denomination. Also, I am adding links to articles showing how contemplative and Emerging/Emergent heresies are entering each denomination (some more than others).
Note: it is not my intent to "attack" Wesleyan Holiness denominations. On the contrary, I love what Wesleyan Holiness denominations used to stand for. Specifically, a biblically sound theology which placed priority on the message of Calvary (John 3:16) and personal holiness (Rom. 12:1-2). And the rejection all unbiblical heretical teachings. The Wesleyan Holiness denominations of yesteryear fought modernism tooth and nail. Unlike today's Wesleyan Holiness denominations listed below, they would have condemned today's heresies of Spiritual Formation/Contemplative Spirituality and Emerging/Emergent teachings.
I know what these Wesleyan Holiness denominations have lost. I am fighting (along with many others in counter-Emergent discernment ministries) to help these straying denominations hopefully return to a biblically sound theology, rejecting Contemplative Spirituality and Emerging/Emergent teachings.
If the denominations themselves reject correction (as is usually the case), we are encouraging members of these denominations to separate, to leave for biblically sound churches. I recommend Bro. David Cloud's Independent Fundamentalist Baptist directory – particularly the "two-asterisk" and "three-asterisk" churches – although these churches vary on some doctrines from fundamentalist Wesleyan Holiness churches of approx. 1890-1942.
I have many blogs on my blogsite exposing heresies of the Evangelical Friends (and Quakers in general). Click here for a partial list of my blogs on the Evangelical Friends.
*** United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) – WARNING – Oneness Pentecostals; UPCI was in the WHC at one time, but as of 12/11/12 the UPCI is no longer listed as a member. Why was the UPCI allowed to become a member in the first place?
Schools in the Evangelical Friends denomination (EFCI) as well as the Nazarene denomination (aka Church of the Nazarene or CotN) are hotbeds of contemplative and Emerging/Emergent teachings. I have been looking for ties between Emerging/Emergent Evangelical Friends schools and Emerging/Emergent Nazarene schools. The following press release provides the strongest evidence I have found so far.
Below I have reposted this press release which appeared in 2008. As of November 2012, Patrick Allen is still provost of George Fox University. In my repost I have emphasized certain points by bolding, and inserted comments in [brackets].
Upon learning George Fox had an open provost position, Patrick Allen knew he had found his dream job.
Allen had been provost at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma since 2005, and before that served 10 years as provost and chief academic officer at 4,000-student Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. Other universities at which he has served include Anderson University, Friends University [Richard Foster taught at Friends University after a stint at GFU], and MidAmerica Nazarene University.
He earned a doctorate in higher education from the University of Oklahoma, and also holds master's degrees in management (Southern Nazarene University) and liberal arts (Southern Methodist University). He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Olivet Nazarene University.
Allen has taken more than 25 student groups to Europe; has played guitar in a bluegrass band in San Diego; and speaks in churches, conferences, and retreats on the value of community and Christian higher education.
Allen will begin July 1.
Below I've reposted Wiley's list of books on the Atonement and related doctrines, from his three-volume Christian Theology. Click here for the original source of this list – as well as Wiley's entire three-volume Christian Theology – viewable online.) Note – I'm in the process of alphabetizing this list by author. Also note – the original list was not scanned accurately by those who put Wiley's three-volume Christian Theology into digital form.
I plan to add links to author bios, as well as links to online books.
Please note that these books present many different theological positions, not just the Wesleyan Holiness position. I am working on separate blogs which list only books of the Wesleyan Holiness position.
Outside of the standard works on theology, the literature of Christian Sonship or Regeneration is not extensive.


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76ers guard Ben Simmons out 1 game with shoulder injury
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons will miss Friday's game at Denver because of sprained AC joint in his right shoulder.
Simmons will sit out against Denver and will be evaluated again before Sunday's game against Charlotte. He was hurt Wednesday in Philadelphia's loss at Utah. Simmons did not play in the second half after bumping into Royce O'Neale's chest while posting up on a first-quarter play. Simmons finished with two points and two assists in 10 minutes.
The All-Star guard averaged 13.1 points and helped lead the Sixers to a 5-2 record.


FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) Ryan Fitzpatrick tried to quickly move on from one of the ugliest performances of his career.
Throwing six interceptions certainly stings. It still did a day after a 24-3 loss at Kansas City.
The veteran quarterback was one of a very few players in the locker room during media availability. He shouldered the blame for the defeat, as he did after the game, but also insisted he wasn't going to dwell on it anymore.
Not when the Jets have a matchup at home with Seattle to prepare for.
Fitzpatrick finished 20 of 44 for 188 yards and tied a franchise record - shared by Joe Namath, who did it three times - with his six-pack of interceptions.
One of the picks was returned for a touchdown, and he had three red-zone throws intercepted in a span of five passes.
Fitzpatrick and the Jets (1-2) know they've got to turn things around quickly with the Seahawks coming to town, even with Russell Wilson's availability uncertain with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
The combined record of New York's next four opponents is 8-4 - Seattle (2-1), Pittsburgh (2-1), Arizona (1-2), Baltimore (3-0) - so things could spiral quickly, long before the Jets even get to their bye in Week 11.
Things were looking way up for the Jets last week after a 37-31 win at Buffalo in which Fitzpatrick threw for 374 yards and was selected the AFC's offensive player of the week. That seemed so long ago after the clunker in Kansas City, with some fans and media wondering if the Jets' confidence in Fitzpatrick was shaken.
''It's the NFL and I'm a pro, and I've played with some good quarterbacks and some not-so-good quarterbacks, and you've just got to move on,'' said left tackle Ryan Clady, in his first season with New York after eight in Denver. ''You've just got to move on and try to get better the next week.
Fitzpatrick didn't address the team as a whole, but said there were ''plenty of side discussions'' with different players trying to work through the loss.
Bowles made his displeasure clear after the game when he repeatedly used a vulgar word to describe the team's performance. When asked what his message was to the team when it met Monday morning, Bowles laughed before saying he mentioned accountability and where the Jets need to be, and what to do to get better.
Whatever Bowles said to his players made an impact. So much so, that Fitzpatrick thinks it's something the Jets could build on moving forward.
Clady said Bowles wasn't necessarily fiery, but ''very direct,'' adding that the coach isn't really ''a yeller.


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Волиця-Польова — село в Україні, у Теофіпольській селищній громаді Хмельницького району Хмельницької області. Розташоване на півночі району, за 62 км від райцентру.

Відповідно до розпорядження Кабінету Міністрів України № 727-р від 12 червня 2020 року «Про визначення адміністративних центрів та затвердження територій територіальних громад Хмельницької області», увійшло до складу Теофіпольської селищної громади.

Історія
Село під назвою Волиця Хоєцького Заславської волості вперше згадується в донесенні возних (судових службовців) Луцькому гродському суду від 7 грудня 1601 року про те, що у 1593 році татарська орда повністю спалила це село і знищила його жителів.

На початку XVII століття село належало князю Острозькому і поміщик заселив його людьми з уцілілих маєтків.

У 1848 році село перейшло у володіння княжни М. Сангушко.

Сучасність

У селі 322 двори, 785 мешканців станом на 01.01.2011.

Розташований будинок культури, бібліотека, музей, загальноосвітня школа. ТОВ «Хлібороб», 5 фермерських господарств, ботанічна пам'ятка природи «Вікові дерева».

Уродженці
 Возна Зінаїда Петрівна — українська радянська діячка.

Див. також
 Список сіл Теофіпольського району
 Волиця (Теофіпольський район)

Примітки

Посилання
 Волице-Польова сільська рада на сайті Хмельницької ОДА

Села Хмельницької області
Населені пункти Хмельницького району


Classic live collection of the Gamblers best tunes back in!
Epic from these Scot/Brit obnoxoid Fall/Jon Wayne worshippers back in!
Tina Lucchessi's street punk 7" back in!
180 gram vinyl for the follow-up to the first lp, which sold out FAST. so new i haven't had a chance to spin this sucka yet!
Power pop/punk ala Kids/ Boys etc back in!


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SPARKS OF IMAGINATION: on the Frequencies of Beuys
Vernissage on 10 February, Thursday, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., considering all anti-epidemic measures and with controlled access.
In 2021, Germany and the world celebrated the centennial of the birth of Joseph Beuys. In Germany, the beuys 2021 initiative aimed primarily at rearticulating the question of whether his ideas remain relevant today and what his legacy may be for German and global art. In Bulgaria, the question was: who is Joseph Beuys and what does he have to do with Bulgarian art?
The ideas to which Joseph Beuys aspired were recognised and adopted in Bulgaria only when the social climate became suitable for them. For many Bulgarian artists, Beuys was indeed a confirmation that freedom in art was not fenced in with barbed wire.
Although displaying a mass of contradictions, Joseph Beuys was a visionary who inspired. He devoted all his energy to directing the transformative power of art to influence society by developing his theory of social sculpture. The exhibition seeks the artistic expression of the sparks that ignited the need to rethink social reality, the search for new forms of creativity and freedom of spirit— both for Beuys and for Bulgarian artists.
The exhibition goes beyond the traditionally designated temporary exhibition galleries in Kvadrat 500, 'conquering' new areas, including incursions into the permanent exposition. The exhibition will include an accompanying programme with screenings, lectures, performances, and tours. Further information about these features will follow soon.
'Sparks of Imagination: on Frequencies of Beuys' is a project of the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria in cooperation with the National Gallery in Sofia, and the Art Affairs and Documents Foundation.
Visual identity: Paul Voggenreite
Curator: Vera Mlechevska
Participants: Adelina Popnedeleva, Albena Mihaylova, Alexander Valchev, Veselin Dimov, Vladimir Ivanov, Georgi Ruzhev, Gradat Group, Dobromir Ivan, Art in Action Association, Ivo Dimchev, Kamen Stoyanov, Lyuben Farzulev, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Monika Popova, Miryana Todorova, Orlin Dvoryanov, Pravdoliub Ivanov, RAB Group, Sasho Stoitszov, Stanislav Pamukchiev, Stefan Nikolaev, Stanka Tsonkova – Usha, and Tsvetan Krastev, among others.
STATES OF IDEOLOGY
WE/RE NATURE
BORJANA VENTZISLAVOVA


Addis Ababa (ăd´Ĭs ăb´əbə) [Amharic,=new flower], city (1994 pop. 2,112,737), capital of Ethiopia. It is situated at c.8,000 ft (2,440 m) on a well-watered plateau surrounded by hills and mountains. Addis Ababa is Ethiopia's largest city and its administrative and communications center. It is the main trade center for coffee, the country's chief export, and for tobacco, grains, and hides. The major industries produce food, beverages, processed tobacco, plastics, chemical products, textiles, and shoes. In addition, the city is the center of the nation's service and finance sectors. Addis Ababa has a large tourist industry. It is the hub of a highway network and a terminus of a railroad that runs to Djibouti, making Addis Ababa an important distribution center. An international airport is near Addis Ababa.
In 1886 the city, then known as Finfinnie, was chosen by Menelik II as the capital of his kingdom of Shoa and was renamed Addis Ababa. In 1889 it was made the capital of Ethiopia. In 1936 (during the Italo-Ethiopian War), Italy captured Addis Ababa and made it the capital of Italian East Africa. The city was recaptured by the Allies in 1941 and returned to Ethiopian rule. After World War II, the city experienced rapid growth.
The African Union (AU; the successor of the Organization of African Unity) and the UN Economic Commission on Africa are headquartered in Addis Ababa, which also hosts numerous international conferences. The Univ. of Addis Ababa, whose Institute of Ethiopian Studies runs an ethnological and traditional arts museum, and Addis Ababa National Theatre are in Addis Ababa. The AU center, the imperial palace, the parliament building, and the Coptic and Roman Catholic cathedrals are notable buildings.
"Addis Ababa." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. . Encyclopedia.com. 10 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
Addis Ababa (Amharic, "new flower") Capital and largest city in Ethiopia, located on a plateau at c.2440m (8000ft) in the highlands of Shewa province. Addis Ababa was made capital of Ethiopia in 1889. It is the headquarters of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). It is the main centre for the country's vital coffee trade. Industries: food, tanning, textiles, wood products. Pop. (1994 est.) 1,047,300.
"Addis Ababa." World Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. 10 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
"Addis Ababa." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. . Encyclopedia.com. 10 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


amidst of this win streak, Bosco has beaten defending Massachusetts State Champion BC High, won their eighth straight Bergen County Championship and captured their second consecutive Gordon Conference regular season title, by winning eight straight conference games.
Outscoring opponents 81-18 during their win streak, Bosco has featured a balanced attack, with contributions coming up and down the roster. Led by Senior Captains TJ Schweighardt (9-20-29), Tyler Sedlak (28-20-48) and Quinnipiac commit Liam McLinskey (18-28-46) the offense has produced at a consistent pace all season. Additional contributions from Sophhomore Zack Hammond (8-4-12), Junior Hunter McGee (4-15-19) and Senior Michael Forgione (3-10-13) have provided even more offensive firepower and highlighted the scoring depth of the Ironmen.
Also fueling the attack while providing stability on the blueline, Sophomore Defenseman Damien Carfagna (4-16-20) and Junior Will Fortescue (2-11-13) have provided timely goals while stifling opposing offenses.
In addition to their torrid offensive pace, Goalies Max Schwarz (15-1, 1.50 GA, 93.4 Sv%) and Kevin Rose (2-0, 0.50 GA, 96.5 Sv%) continue to dominate games between the pipes and limit opponents second chance opportunities for Don Bosco.
Up next, Don Bosco plays their last regular season home game vs Gordon Coference foe Pope John, 8:45 pm at the Ice Vault.


and darling "Heather the Kitty" for your Jeremy and Julie Dolls!
Pattern includes instructions for both boy and girl doll complete "Dress Up" outfits and Heather the Kitty.
Also included with the pattern is the cord for Kitty's whiskers, chenille stem for Kitty's poseable tail, and Golden Heart Charm for Kitty's Collar.
Jeremy & Julie Dolls sold separately.
Crocheted with 4-ply yarns. Stitches used: single crochet, half double crochet and double crochet.


Anthony Houston completed this bicycle ride in memory of his daughter Edel Houston, who sadly lost her life to an eating disorder in June 2015, raising much needed funds for StampEd, as it was a support group both he, his wife Rhonda and Edel got much help and support from.
Anthony and nephew Niall who also did the cycle.
Anthony and St Malachys college teacher Liam McGuinness who arranged this.
Anthony, Rhonda, Louis and Muriosa at the finish line.
In June 2015, our extended family experienced the ultimate devastation an eating disorder can cause when my cousin Edel was taken from us, at just 23 years old, through her own strive for what she perceived as perfection after taking a dangerous diet pill purchased on line.
Throughout her battle with her weight Edel remained a kind, caring and thoughtful individual and relished her role as a big sister and loved both Halloween and Christmas time, when she spoiled her family with presents.
Edel had been attending a small charitable support group Stamp -ED, which as well as offering support meetings for sufferers and carers. The charity aims to raise awareness of the symptoms and signs of eating disorders and sharing positive stories of recovery to inspire sufferers. Please click the link below and chooses go to learn more about this charity.
Her parents have been proactive in helping raise awareness of the Dangerous diet pill DNP and raising funds for the amazing work this small charity does. They also have done an interview on utv below to highlight their story.


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Hey, Netflix Left Out Ming-Na Wen's Name In Mulan's Credits!
Most of us should be familiar with the act of giving credit where it's due. After all, it's just not nice not to be credited for the work you did.
Imagine producer Dave Sanchez's surprise when he realized the all the Asian actors that starred in Mulan weren't credited at all on Netflix!!!
It gets worse... Ming-Na Wen, who voiced the main character Mulan, and BD Wong, who voiced Li Shang, were both not in the list as well. HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN?!
When Sanchez's tweet spread with netizens joining in calling Netflix out, even Ming-Na Wen joined the conversation.
Here are some of the tweets from netizens about this oversight by Netflix.
Fortunately, Netflix heard them all and made the necessary edits.
Did you think Netflix responded well? Share your thoughts in the comments!


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A Paris Tour Tracks the Old Haunts of Famous Black Americans
Russell Contreras, Associated Press
- Dec 02, 2017 9:00 am
The City of Light famously embraced African-American expats fleeing American racism. A tour of the former hangouts of these intellectuals, performers, and other luminaries can offer a fresh travel experience.
— Sean O'Neill
The great African-American writers James Baldwin and Richard Wright began their feud over Wright's novel "Native Son," at Cafe Les Deux Magots. Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis held hands with his white girlfriend, French actress Juliette Greco, while strolling along the Seine after hanging out with Picasso. Entertainer Josephine Baker became a megastar at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees.
Some travelers to Paris seek selfies with the Eiffel Tower, go to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre or stroll to the Arc de Triomphe. But you can create a different type of itinerary exploring African-American connections to the City of Light. Some of the United States' greatest black intellectuals and performers sought an escape here from the racism of 20th century America, and with a little homework, you can retrace their footsteps.
"Paris. … There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself," poet Langston Hughes wrote, according to Paule Marshall's memoir "Triangular Road."
"I've never felt a moment of sorrow," Wright said about leaving the U.S. for France.
How and why these black expats felt more at home in Paris than in their own country is the theme of Black Paris Tours , founded and led by Ricki Stevenson.
In the U.S., African-Americans contended with segregation, racial terror and little support for their art. But in Paris, they drank wine with surrealists, frequented bars that aided the French Resistance during World War II, and enjoyed accolades for their work, Stevenson said. The French showered them with admiration and opportunity — ironic given France's treatment of its African colonies. And while Paris today is a multiethnic city, immigrants from its former colonies, especially North Africans, often face racism and discrimination.
Yet decades ago, African-Americans felt welcomed here. St. Louis-born Freda Josephine McDonald, for example, came to Paris as a dancer after a life of cleaning houses and babysitting for wealthy white families. In the U.S., she was criticized for being "too dark." The New York Times once called her a "Negro wench." But in Paris, she drew immediate fame for her 1925 performance in La Revue Negre at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. As Josephine Baker, she became one of the era's most popular performers.
"The opportunity to live a rich, full life is something that she could have in Paris," Stevenson said. "She could not have this in the United States."
When Baker died in 1975, she was buried in a French military uniform with her medals for her role in the French Resistance during World War II.
Today, you can catch a show at the Art Deco-style Theatre des Champs-Elysees, visit Baker's favorite restaurant La Coupole and take photos at Place Josephine Baker, a square. Her image, rarely seen in the U.S., is widespread in Paris. There's a swimming pool named for her too, in a barge floating on the Seine.
And while the Lenox Lounge, a famed Harlem jazz club where Billie Holiday sang, has closed, Paris jazz clubs such as Caveau de la Huchette in the city's Latin Quarter still serve up energetic evenings of live swing and bebop.
Founded in 1947, Caveau de la Huchette was one of many clubs where African-American performers sought to make a living amid changing music tastes in the U.S. It played host to the likes of Lionel Hampton and Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers. Last year, the club got a cameo appearance in the movie "La La Land." One evening last summer, a trio of saxophonists drew a diverse crowd of swing dancers enjoying 1940s-era jazz.
Around the corner from Caveau de la Huchette, vintage shops sell posters of African-American jazz artists and hard-to-find vinyl albums like "The Hawk in Paris" by Coleman Hawkins.
In Saint Germain des Pres, Cafe de Flore is known as a favorite hangout of Ernest Hemingway's. But it's also where James Baldwin, a son of Harlem who came to Paris with only $40, crafted his novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain." There's a small photo of Hemingway upstairs but no image of Baldwin.
At Le Select cafe, a gathering place for intellectuals before World War II, Baldwin finished "Giovanni's Room," a novel about an American in Paris and his affair with an Italian man.
The famed English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company served as a meeting place for African-Americans and other expats throughout the 20th century and still does. On a recent afternoon, the African-American writer Colson Whitehead talked to a crowd outside the store about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Underground Railroad." He answered questions about slavery in the U.S., police shootings and the state of African-Americans in a post-President Barack Obama nation. Inside, books on display included "They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives" and "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race."
Looking back on his time in Paris, Miles Davis once wrote: "I loved being in Paris and loved the way I was treated."
Stevenson said visitors can learn about that chapter of the African-American experience today. "All you need to know is the history," she said. "And know where to visit. It's all here."
CAFE LES DEUX MAGOTS: 6 Place Saint-Germain des Pres
CAFE DE FLORE: 172 Boulevard Saint-Germain
CAVEAU DE LA HUCHETTE: 5 Rue de la Huchette
SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY: 37 Rue de la Bucherie
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Photo Credit: In this June 20, 2017 photo, novelist Colson Whitehead speaks to fans after discussing his Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'The Underground Railroad' at the English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Travelers to Paris can create a different type of itinerary exploring African-American connections to the City of Light. Russell Contreras / Associated Press